Popular baby names in Connecticut, 1913

The most popular baby names in Connecticut in 1913 were Mary for girls (606 babies) and John for boys (508). Social Security records list 12,928 babies born in Connecticut in 1913 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Connecticut in 1913

Names given at least 15 times in Connecticut that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Carmela: 18 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Natalie: 15 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Claire: 22 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Marion: 115 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Theresa: 57 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Antoinette: 26 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Jennie: 70 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Sophie: 43 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Angelina: 20 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Amelia: 25 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Boys

Rocco: 17 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Salvatore: 26 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Dominic: 15 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Stephen: 63 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Anthony: 136 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Angelo: 23 babies, 4× the national rate
Edmund: 28 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Dominick: 15 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Michael: 117 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Nicholas: 33 babies, 3.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Connecticut, 1913

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	Mary	606	–	1
2	Helen	382	–	2
3	Anna	258	↑1	7
4	Margaret	236	↓1	4
5	Dorothy	169	–	3
6	Rose	167	↑1	14
7	Elizabeth	156	↓1	8
8	Ruth	148	–	5
9	Frances	125	↑2	9
10	Marion	115	↑5	51
11	Mildred	112	↓2	6
12	Florence	110	↑1	13
13	Alice	107	↓3	11
14	Catherine	98	↑2	22
15	Josephine	98	↓1	24
16	Anne	91	↑14	57
17	Lillian	90	↓5	16
18	Marie	79	↑4	10
19	Louise	75	↑4	17
20	Irene	70	↓2	21
21	Jennie	70	↑16	80
22	Eleanor	69	↓3	34
23	Ann	68	↑3	46
24	Julia	68	↓7	42
25	Edith	66	↑3	29
26	Ethel	66	↑1	20
27	Gertrude	66	↓7	33
28	Grace	66	↓7	25
29	Doris	62	↓5	44
30	Pauline	59	↑15	35
31	Evelyn	58	↓6	12
32	Theresa	57	↑2	97
33	Jean	55	↑14	60
34	Katherine	55	↓5	54
35	Agnes	51	↑8	41
36	Beatrice	51	↑4	37
37	Esther	48	↓1	32
38	Marjorie	48	↓7	48
39	Edna	47	↓4	18
40	Gladys	44	new	19
41	Sophie	43	↓3	>100
42	Elsie	42	↓10	40
43	Stella	41	↓4	69
44	Bernice	36	new	45
45	Lucy	35	new	77
46	Virginia	35	↓4	15
47	Eva	34	new	50
48	Genevieve	34	↑1	84
49	Jane	34	↓1	81
50	Nellie	34	↓6	58

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	John	508	–	1
2	Joseph	380	–	5
3	William	297	–	2
4	George	217	–	6
5	Edward	208	–	8
6	Frank	203	–	9
7	James	179	–	3
8	Charles	174	–	7
9	Robert	157	–	4
10	Anthony	136	↑1	38
11	Louis	135	↑3	20
12	Thomas	129	↑6	10
13	Michael	117	↑7	40
14	Walter	112	↓2	11
15	Stanley	104	↑4	41
16	Arthur	99	↓6	17
17	Henry	93	↓4	12
18	Raymond	88	↓3	18
19	Albert	83	↓3	16
20	Harold	82	↑3	13
21	Paul	76	↑4	14
22	Francis	73	↓5	30
23	Frederick	67	↑1	49
24	Peter	65	↓3	51
25	Ralph	64	↑8	22
26	Alfred	63	↑4	42
27	Stephen	63	–	86
28	Samuel	59	↑1	36
29	Richard	58	↓1	19
30	Andrew	55	↓4	47
31	Daniel	55	↑11	54
32	Harry	55	↓10	15
33	Howard	50	↑5	26
34	Vincent	47	–	66
35	Fred	46	↑2	27
36	Carl	45	↑7	23
37	Donald	44	↓2	25
38	Philip	40	↑1	69
39	Herbert	39	↑5	39
40	David	37	↓9	29
41	Ernest	35	↓9	34
42	Irving	35	new	>100
43	Norman	35	new	57
44	Kenneth	34	↓8	33
45	Chester	33	new	56
46	Nicholas	33	new	>100
47	Alexander	32	↓6	98
48	Benjamin	31	↓3	70
49	Eugene	30	↓9	43
50	Lawrence	30	–	35

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